Significant Figures - Johns Hopkins University

The rules for significant figures can be summarized as follows: 1. To determine the number of significant figures: o All nonzero digits are significant. (1.234 has 4 sig figs) o Zeroes between nonzero digits are significant. (1.02 has 3 sig figs) o Zeroes to the left of the first nonzero digits are not significant. (0.012 has 2 ................
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